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  • In fact, so mesmerizing is the manner in which the snowflakes spiral through the air that you are run from the road when a troika passes at full gallop—with a young officer of the Hussars standing at the reins like a centurion in his chariot.†  (source)
  • Frank became very aware of the centurion badge on his shirt, the SPQR tattoo on his forearm.†  (source)
  • All of this appeared in Centurion bold type—already antiquated in 1917—with delicate hairlines separating seven columns and subheads in bold serif relief.†  (source)
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  • The ships included the Centurion and the Chatham, of 50 guns each, the 40-gun Phoenix, and the 30-gun Greyhound with General Howe on board, in addition to the 64-gun Asia.†  (source)
  • The Christ was loaded down with chains, and the centurions were really laying on the stripes.†  (source)
  • The Scim Centurion has made his way to the foot of the table.†  (source)
  • "And then," Arturo continued, his words coming pacifically from the turtle-like jaw under his centurions face and sparkling black eyes, "most accountants like games, and to them their work is a game.†  (source)
  • The centurion ...commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land.†  (source)
  • Well, yes; perhaps; particularly centurions.†  (source)
  • The centurion yonder is coming with the guard.†  (source)
  • | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, | | | | | | u og a fe L. | +——+ It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital letters: quinturions, centurions, decurions, eclaireurs [scouts], and the sense of the letters: u og a fe, which was a date, and meant April 15th, 1832.†  (source)
  • Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, 'Caesar wills that you die.'†  (source)
  • Noble men and noble women, ambassadors and centurions, ladies and tradeswomen, and babies who have never seen a cow.†  (source)
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